“ISIS is honoring president Obama”, the Republican presidential nominee said during a rally at BB&T Center in Sunrise, Fla. He was the founder of ISIS and so was she.
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If you don’t think calling Obama “the founder of ISIS” is not a play on racist, birther, anti-muslim tropes you ain’t paying attention.
The Trump campaign alleged in a statement last week that the Clinton Foundation ties to a corporation “funding” ISIS.
Republicans have long blamed the Obama administration’s foreign policy for the instability in the Middle East. The GOP nominee said Obama should have left “some small forces behind” to “keep it under control” because not doing so “unleashed awful fury all over the Middle East”.
“We’re not respected. We’re laughed at all over the world”.
His Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton denounced Trump’s comment as a “casual incitement to violence”.
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS or ISIL, had its roots in the al Qaeda insurgency that arose after the United States led an invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The group carried out massive attacks against Iraq’s Shiite Muslim majority, fuelling tensions with al Qaida’s central leadership. The local group’s then-leader, Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in 2006 in a USA airstrike but is still seen as the Islamic State group’s founder. His suggestion that the president was honored by ISIS recalled an earlier controversy when Trump seemingly implied that the president had some connection to the terrorist massacre of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
Sitting behind Mr Trump at the rally was former Florida congressman Mark Foley, who resigned in 2006 amid allegations that he sent sexually suggestive messages to former House of Representatives pages.
Trump has been criticised over the past week for comments he made suggesting gun rights advocates could stop Clinton from becoming president and picking new, anti-gun Supreme Court judges, by using their second amendment rights, which allow them to bear arms.
To illustrate his point, he turned to the crowd and asked, “How many of you people know me?”
“Words matter, my friends”, Mrs Clinton said in Des Moines.
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Supporters of Trump, who has never held elected office, like the combative and often insulting style that has drawn him wide criticism, including from some in his party.
